STRAPHANGERS DEVICE

• US 3,645,212 A
• Filed: 03/04/1970
• Issued: 02/29/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Selim V. Dahlstrom
• Original Assignee: Selim V. Dahlstrom
• Inventors: Dahlstrom, Selim V.
• Primary Examiner(s): La Point, Arthur L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bertsch, Richard A.
• Application Number:
  US05/019,149
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• Field of Search: 74/547 287/99,100 248/351,354P 135/15PO 294/26,53.5,57 105/354
• US Class Current: 105/354
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/02 of hand grips or straps
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/32409 Members locked in axial alignment

Abstract

The device for use by a standing traveler in subways, buses or other vehicles. The device serves to aid a person of short stature to reach the overhead strap or support bar in vehicle. The device includes a hooked rod and a hingeable second rod and the handle grip, the hook serving to engage the overhead strap or support bar in the vehicle. The device also includes an attached chain and pin, the pin serving to lock the two bars in alignment and also serves to lock the two bars when in the folding compact position for carrying.

Claims

1. A straphanger device for use by a standing passenger in a transport vehicle comprising in combination a pair of bars pivotally connected together, a first of said bars being formed at one end into a U-shaped hook, the second of said bars having a closed loop formed at one end to serve as a handle, the opposite ends of said bars being pivotable about a transverse hinge pin fitted through said bars;

said bar having said loop having an extension at said end fitted with said hinge pin, said extension having a transverse lockpin opening, said other bar having said hook having likewise a transverse lockpin opening, said lockpin openings being an equal distance from said hinge pin so that they can be aligned, said aligned lockpin openings receiving a lockpin therethrough so to secure said bars in an extended position, said lockpin being tethered to one end of a chain that at its other end is secured to an eye affixed to said bar having said loop, said hook being in a plane at right angle to a plane of said loop so that when said bars are pivoted into a closed position said hook is received into said loop.